Re: FVWM: dynamic nummanagers?

From: Brian Keck <b.keck_at_trl.telstra.com.au>
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 20:02:37 +1000

On Wed, 01 Sep 1999 10:32:24 +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 02:47:12AM -0500, nathan.froyd_at_rose-hulman.edu wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 02:47:28PM +1000, Brian Keck wrote:
>>>...
>>>>Having made the switch from tvtwm, there's one thing I miss, namely
>>>>having a dynamic number of icon managers. With tvtwm I had an icon
>>>>manager for each host I was logged into. The config file 'IconManagers'
>>>>entry defined about 60 icon managers, one per host, but if I was logged
>>>>into 5 hosts then I'd only see 5 icon managers. With fvwm2 I'd be seeing
>>>>60 icon managers all the time.
>>>>Is there a way of avoiding this?
>>
>>I'm not sure what you're explaining here. Are you saying that you have
>>windows running off of hosts FOO, BAR, and BAZ, and for each host, you have
>>a separate icon manager?

yes

>I think what Brian wants is to disable managers that don't
>have windows to display.

that's right (no visible iconmanager for host BOD when I'm not running
an xterm on BOD)

Thanks,

Brian K

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Received on Wed Sep 01 1999 - 05:07:13 BST

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